Appointments are generally at ten minute intervals. If you feel you require a longer appointment please speak with our receptionists who will be happy to assist.You are free to see whichever doctor you wish

Routine appointments for GP’s and nurses can usually be booked 8 weeks in advance. Emergency appointments are available every day.

Our receptionists are trained to ask for brief details of your request which can be helpful to our doctors and nurses in helping to prioritise an urgent request for an appointment. This is helpful to us but by no means mandatory, so please feel comfortable in the amount of information you wish to provide.

Practice Nurses

In a number of cases it might be worth considering an appointment with a practice nurse rather than a doctor. Practice nurses are qualified to deal with many conditions and you may be seen more quickly. If you're not sure ask the the receptionist for guidance.

Registration required : for patient confidentiality and security reasons you must first register your interest with the practice. Click here for details of how to register.

Home Visits

Whilst we encourage our patients to come to the surgery, where we have the proper equipment and facilities available, we do appreciate this is not always possible. In this respect, if you do need a home visit, you can help us by calling reception before 10am..The receptionist will take your name, number and brief details of the problem. A doctor will either phone you back or attend later in the day.

We are, of course, happy to attend those who are housebound or have serious illnesses, but it should be remembered that a doctor can see 4 or 5 patients at the surgery in the time it takes to do one home visit.

You can also be visited at home by a community nurse if you are referred by your GP. You should also be visited at home by a health visitor if you have recently had a baby or if you are newly registered with a GP and have a child under five years.

Do I need a home visit?

GP visit recommended

Home visiting makes clinical sense and is the best way of giving medical opinion, in cases involving:

•The terminally ill.

•The truly housebound patient for whom travel to premises by car would cause deterioration in their medical condition.

GP visit may be useful

Following a conversation with a health professional, it may be agreed that a seriously ill patient may be helped by a GP's visit.

GP visit is not usual

In most of these cases a visit would not be an appropriate use of your GP's time or best for you:

•Common symptoms of childhood: fevers, cold, cough, earache, headache, diarrhoea/vomiting and most cases of abdominal pain. These patients are usually well enough to travel, to the surgery. It is not harmful to take a child with fever outside.

•Adults with common problems, such as cough, sore throat, influenza, general malaise, back pain and abdominal pain are also readily transportable to the doctor's surgery.

Before you leave hospital, you will be given a 'discharge' letter about your illness or operation and any treatment needed. Please bring this to the surgery as soon as reasonably possible so that we can arrange any care needed or adjust your medication.

Hospital Appointments

With local waiting times often quite long this can understandably lead to frustration for both patients and their GP. It is therefore not uncommon for the surgery to be contacted to chase up their appointment times or try and bring them forward. However, we have no control over the appointment allocation and our secretaries do not have privileged access to the hospital departments. Urgent appointments are offered according to set clinical conditions and consultants will not accept letters from GPs appealing for a particular patient to be pushed up the ladder. We would therefore ask patients to contact the hospital directly if they have enquires about their appointment time or wish to be put on cancellation lists.